Dexter Gordon, the tall tenor saxophonist from Los Angeles whose late-in-life acting role in the movie Round Midnight earned him an Oscar nomination, had a recording career that spanned five decades. From...
In the jazz world, 1959 was a year where titans reigned, where nearly every name you could think of put out recordings that would define their eras, their careers, or in a few lucky cases, their entire...
Maybe it’s the blueness of the cover, or its chamber-like sound, but John Coltrane’s Blue Train, likeMiles Davis’s Kind of Blue, frequently puts listeners in a reflective...
